NPR Arts
Originally published on Wed December 5, 2012 8:34 am
This past Sunday, the Old South Church in Boston made a decision that cuts to the heart of not only the congregation's history, but to the very beginning of this country's founding.
With an overwhelming 271 to 34 vote, the church decided to give its board the power to sell one copy of the Bay Psalm Book, the first book ever printed in British North America.
Only 11 of the original 1,600 copies of the book printed in Cambridge in 1640 remain. And of those, the church owns two.
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